Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Top of the evening

Sorry for the delay. I heard a New Zealand historian at UALR's History Institute. Fascinating. Did you know there are no native mammals in NZ? Did you know it will be a majority "brown" country before long? That it saved the kiwi fruit industry -- poached by Italy and Chile -- by developing an organic golden variety? I didn't

From the mailbag: Sierra Club thanks PSC for letting it intervene in SWEPCO power plant case. Mighty nice of them to give a pretense of an open mind, at least. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel wouldn't allow even the appearance of fairness.

ALSO: Tom Cox, the newly minted teabagging Republican Senate candidate, was nominated for Worst Person in the World tonight on Olbermann.Sure, a guy who runs against illegal immigration but who's been using illegal immigrants in his boat plant is an easy target. I know. Cox checked their papers as carefully as possible. I'll buy that. Good thing he doesn't live in Oklahoma. Or, if the Twilight Zoners among Ark. Repubs had their way, Arkansas wouldn't be so hot.

FINALLY: Something's cooking on hyperlocal political/racial issue. More when I have it.

A man was killed and and a woman was critically rounded in a shooting Sunday nigth at 21st and Oak.

Additional pleadings have been filed in the citizen's lawsuit challenging the new Arkansas voter ID law that includes evidence the new law resulted in votes in a recent special election in Russellville not being counted.

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John Goodson — the Texarkana attorney, D.C. lobbyist, and husband of Arkansas State Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson — was reprimanded today by a federal judge for his conduct in a class-action case.

The Little Rock City Board illustrated this week a community divided over public schools, another blow to the Little Rock School District and another illustration of the need for ward elections to the board.

40/29 TV reports that two law officers were shot about 7 a.m. today near Hackett in Sebastian County and at mid-afternoon came word that one of them had died. Later in the day a suspect was taken into custody in the shooting.

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A federal prosecutor in Missouri said Friday that a former legislator, Henry Wilkins IV of Pine Bluff, had said he'd received $100,000 in bribes as a state legislator from indicted former lobbyist Rusty Cranford. He was not alone on an illicit dole.